Talk:Franklin Academy (Connecticut)/Archives/2018

Very poor article...
Needs to be redone, no sources, badly writen, needs to have guidelines. I would suggest that an admin who has some time on their hands either help set some guidelines, or delete it. Zakariya bin Dana (talk) 12:46, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

Massive overhaul in progress
'''Should you leave the old version for now, then add the new content when your revision is completed? Currently, the article as it stands appears to draw connections between the old school and current one. Is it your goal to say that the current school is very much like the new one? Perhaps the History portion should appear lower.'''

This article is extremely poorly written in almost every aspect. I found the following issues to be present:

-poor grammatical conventions

-lack of citations

-broken citations in places

-informal writing tone

-excess of irrelevant information

-lack of important information (notably in the History section)

As such, I'm going to be doing a massive rewrite of... basically the entire article. I will likely have a multi-step process.

1. Rewrite the article using researched information and proper conventions.

2. Publish the changes. (there will be a huge lack of citations for this time period)

3. Fix references, adding all my citations with archives and removing any broken or useless references.

4. Publish my rewritten product.

After that, I'll be requesting that the article be reassessed and I will ask for more contributions via some WikiProjects.

Bluecrystal004 (talk) 18:20, 25 January 2018 (UTC)
 * I'd also like to redo the infobox Bluecrystal004 (talk) 20:51, 25 January 2018 (UTC)
 * also of importance: i may have overdone it with the lead citations, could cut down on those a bit and work on citing them in the body of the article Bluecrystal004 (talk) 04:05, 29 January 2018 (UTC)

COI and some concerns
So I want to concede that I AM student of the school, so I suppose there is some COI here. However, based on the stark inactivity on this article, I made the decision that I might as well be the one to try to clean it up. I'd like to think the contributions I made are well sourced and the information is fairly presented, but if you think there's a problem with any of it, feel free to fix it and let me know.

Aside from that, my main concern is that the bulk of information available on the curriculum and structures of the school comes from its own website, which clearly presents a problem with independent sources. I attempted to source as much as I could from third-party sources, but it's definitely a problem. Based on precedent (I've seen non-independent sources be accepted for minor claims), I am going to add information with only non-independent sources. Anyone who thinks such content should be deleted or has a third-party source to reinforce a claim, please modify the article accordingly.

I am also working on getting a photo for the infobox (or multiple photos for the article), either through myself or a friend.

Bluecrystal004 (talk) 21:38, 28 January 2018 (UTC)